A role for Xenopus Frizzled 8 in dorsal development

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 145-157

  Itoh, Keiji ^a   Jacob, Jessie ^a   Y Sokol, Sergei ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryonic axis; Frizzled receptor; Organizer; Wnt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEAD; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS;

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; FRIZZLED 8 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; FRIZZLED-8 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; XENOPUS PROTEIN; XWNT 5A PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XWNT-5A PROTEIN, XENOPUS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; FEMALE; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAD; LIGANDS; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0032102670     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00076-8     Document Type: Article

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